Solar System Ice Giants: Exoplanets in our Backyard
Abstract
Future remote sensing of exoplanets will be enhanced by a thorough investigation of our solar system Ice Giants (Neptune-size planets). What can the configuration of the magnetic field tell us (remotely) about the interior, and what implications does that field have for the structure of the magnetosphere; energy input into the atmosphere, and surface geophysics (for example surface weathering of satellites that might harbour sub-surface oceans). How can monitoring of auroral emission help inform future remote observations of emission from exoplanets? Our Solar System provides the only laboratory in which we can perform in-situ experiments to understand exoplanet formation, dynamos, systems and magnetospheres.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.03573,
title = {Solar System Ice Giants: Exoplanets in our Backyard},
author = {Abigail Rymer and Kathleen Mandt and Dana Hurley and Carey Lisse and Noam Izenberg and H. Todd Smith and Joseph Westlake and Emma Bunce and Christopher Arridge and Adam Masters and Mark Hofstadter and Amy Simon and Pontus Brandt and George Clark and Ian Cohen and Robert Allen and Sarah Vine and Kenneth Hansen and George Hospodarsky and William Kurth and Paul Romani and Laurent Lamy and Philippe Zarka and Hao Cao and Carol Paty and Matthew Hedman and Elias Roussos and Dale Cruikshank and William Farrell and Paul Fieseler and Andrew Coates and Roger Yelle and Christopher Parkinson and Burkhard Militzer and Denis Grodent and Peter Kollmann and Ralph McNutt and Nicolas André and Nathan Strange and Jason Barnes and Luke Dones and Tilmann Denk and Julie Rathbun and Jonathan Lunine and Ravi Desai and Corey Cochrane and Kunio M. Sayanagi and Frank Postberg and Robert Ebert and Thomas Hill and Ingo Mueller-Wodarg and Leonardo Regoli and Duane Pontius and Sabine Stanley and Thomas Greathouse and Joachim Saur and Essam Marouf and Jan Bergman and Chuck Higgins and Robert Johnson and Michelle Thomsen and Krista Soderlund and Xianzhe Jia and Robert Wilson and Jacob Englander and Jim Burch and Tom Nordheim and Cesare Grava and Kevin Baines and Lynnae Quick and Christopher Russell and Thomas Cravens and Baptiste Cecconi and Shahid Aslam and Veronica Bray and Katherine Garcia-Sage and John Richardson and John Clark and Sean Hsu and Richard Achterberg and Nick Sergis and Flora Paganelli and Sasha Kempf and Glenn Orton and Ganna Portyankina and Geraint Jones and Thanasis Economou and Timothy Livengood and Stamatios Krimigi and James Szalay and Catriona Jackman and Phillip Valek and Alain Lecacheux and Joshua Colwell and Jamie Jasinski and Federico Tosi and Ali Sulaiman and Marina Galand and Anna Kotova and Krishan Khurana and Margaret Kivelson and Darrell Strobel and Aikaterina Radiota and Paul Estrada and Stefano Livi and Abigail Azari and Japheth Yates and Frederic Allegrini and Marissa Vogt and Marianna Felici and Janet Luhmann and Gianrico Filacchione and Luke Moore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03573},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Exoplanet Science Strategy White Paper, submitted to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Space Studies Board, 9 March 2018